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The company again raised its revenue guidance for the year, now expecting $192 million to $194 million, from its August view of $183 million to $186 million.

San Francisco-based Splunk makes software that allows companies to collect and analyze large quantities of data. New customers commonly use Splunk's software to mine data to troubleshoot security and network problems, then apply the results to other tasks. Information-technology managers used to have to comb through data logs to spot and solve problems, but can now achieve the same kinds of results in a fraction of the time using Splunk's technology.

Splunk has never posted a profitable quarter, though it benefits from a rapidly growing customer base and exposure to a technology trend toward analyzing huge chunks of data.

For the period ended Oct. 31, Splunk reported a loss of $5.5 million, compared with a year-earlier loss of $3.6 million. The per-share loss was six cents, compared with 17 cents a year ago, due to significantly more shares outstanding in the latest period. Excluding stock-based compensation, the latest period's loss was a penny a share. Analysts polled by Thomson Reuters expected an adjusted loss of two cents a share.

Revenue jumped 67% to $52 million, topping the company's August prediction of $45 million to $47 million.

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